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Running head The Edge of Excellence Recently the media has spent an increasing amount of broadcast time on new technology The focus of high-tech media has been aimed at the flurry of advances concerning artificial intelligence AI What is artificial intelligence and what is the media talking about Are these technologies beneficial to our society or mere novelties among business and marketing professionals Medical facilities police departments and manufacturing plants have all been changed by AI but how These questions and many others are the concern of the general public brought about by the lack of education concerning rapidly advancing computer technologyArtificial intelligence is defined as the ability of a machine to think for itself Scientists and theorists continue to debate if computers will actually be able to think for themselves at one point Patterson 7 The generally accepted theory is that computers do and will think more in the future AI has grown rapidly in the last ten years chiefly because of the advances in computer architecture The term artificial intelligence was actually coined in 1956 by a group of scientists having their first meeting on the topic Patterson 6 Early attempts at AI were neural networks modeled after the ones in the human brain Success was minimal at best because of the lack of computer technology needed to calculate such large equations AI is achieved using a number of different methods The more popular implementations comprise neural networks chaos engineering fuzzy logic knowledge based systems and expert systems Using any one of the aforementioned design structures requires a specialized computer system For example Anderson Consulting applies a knowledge based system to commercial loan officers using multimedia Hedburg 121 Their system requires a fast IBM desktop computer Other systems may require even more horsepower using exotic computers or workstations Even more exotic is the software that is used Since there are very few applications that are pre-written using AI each company has to write

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